free-handed

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“No man has been at greater straits than I, and has borne more pinching poverty and hardship; but nobody can say⟳ of me that, if I had a guinea, I was not free-handed with it, and did not spend⟳ it as well as a lord could do.”

“This tendency of his to be liberal and profuse he had acquired from having been a soldier in his youth, for the soldier's life is a school in which the niggard becomes free-handed and the free-handed prodigal”

“This chapter discusses the role of patellofemoral arthroplasty for isolated patellofemoral arthritis, describes a free-handed, uninstrumented MIS surgical technique, and reviews the results of the procedure (independent of surgical approach⟳).”

“Meanwhile, and contradictorily to this contraction of currency, the collapse of National Bank that had earlier put⟳ limits on the free-handed lending policies of state banks allowed these to flood⟳ much of the country with cheap paper money.”

“But the opinion of Gray, J., in that case can hardly bear⟳ the interpretation that State Courts are free to play⟳ whatever tricks they please⟳ with the State law. ... A retrograde movement to free-handed State judicial iconoclasm is impossible.”

“A short way ahead Kaveri was startled to see⟳ a woman carrying a child in her arms as well as a load⟳ on her head while the man twirled his moustache and walked beside her, free-handed.”

“This distinction is all the more important when we are in a jurisdiction where the free-handed mortgage of a stock⟳ in trade⟳ is unlawful.”

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